Bistineau bill passes Senate, causes uproar

Sen. Ryan Gatti, District 36, is receiving a firestorm of backlash after Senate Bill 415, which would form a Lake Bistineau Commission, was pushed through the Senate with a vote of 35 to 1.

GattiWhen news of the bill passing began to spread, Bistineau residents took to Facebook to express their outrage over the fact that it was pushed through without holding all three town hall meetings first.

“I do feel he lied,” Susan Addington, a Bistineau resident, said. “He told us at the town hall Saturday that he would